Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026

 

Walked to the soccer field and then six times around it and back home this morning. That little jaunt provides the 7,500 steps that I  walk nearly every day of the week, as I have been doing since getting my own place(s) in mid-September, 2025 here in Costa Rica.

 

SuperSanIsidro opens early on Saturday at around 7 , I guess, because it was open today. The other days when I went walking (weekdays) it hadn’t opened by the time I finished my rounds at close to 8 o’clock, so I don’t know what hour it opens weekdays. The hours aren’t posted.

 

Ate chicken and rice soup (homemade in the crockpot yesterday afternoon) for breakfast with a half piece of the dessert (postre) that I got at the feria yesterday. Both were scrumptous!

 

The dessert is satisfyingly sweet (Tico made) so a little bit satisfies completely. This means I’ll be able to enjoy the four pieces I bought for days.

 

The two Tico-baked chocolate chip cookies I got at the feria are good, too — not too sweet — so one a day is satifying as a treat.

 

On the way to or from Rescate Wildlife Rescue and Preserve on Thursday

 

…I will need to get more colones for the feria on Friday because Lisa and I will both be shopping then and she won’t have any colones on her yet except for the ones I can give her. I just have to remember to ask Adilio or Jon (probably Adilio) to stop at Banco Nacional for a couple minutes so I can do that. Maybe I can have Adilio drop us there and have Jon fetch us there for the trip to Rescate instead of a block away.  Whatever works!

 

The feria yesterday was lovely temperature-wise

 

…until about noon when it began to feel a wee bit too toasty for me, but we left at 12:30 to drive to lunch at Mas Q Sabor, so it was fine to sweat a little bit for a little while.

 

Had a Lovely Hour-Long Visit with Sirkka and Abdullah via our laptops

 

Because we used our laptops, I was able to give them a “walking virtual live tour” of my abode and the views from my backyard, and Abdullah was able to show me his artwork, his recently achieved Black Belt plaque, and his amazing piano compositions on their piano.

 

It was a great convo and they’re very glad I got out of the country when I did. I wish they could, too, but I don’t know if they want to. Didn’t ask.

 

I spent a good 30 minutes extolling the virtues of Costa Rica, its people and culture, and this rental. Abdullah told me what he’s studying in college — he has a full load.

 

Charli was outside most of the day

 

…but she returned a little while ago and is now sacked out behind my head on the back of the sofa. I’m cooking rice right now or I’d probably join her for a nap (but not, obviously, on the back of the sofa!).

 

Last night’s sunset was AMAZING

 

 

I’m Partway Through Edie Bakker’s book

 

… about growing up in Stone Age Papau New Guinea. Fascinating!

 

I wWill Have to Go Into Town (or down to the Super)

 

…before Wednesday to get some more food in the fridge — more than cooked rice, black beans, bread, eggs, peanut butter and jelly — for Lisa and I to eat until Friday, when we’ll go to the feria to shop and take pix of iguanas. I don’t have enough variety here — or amounts — to sustain us for three days (until my SS check drops on Wednesday, the day she arrives) although we’ll probably be eating lunch at Rescate (or near it) and we’ll have lunch out on Friday with my Costa Rica family wherever Jon says we’ll be going for that.  Lisa and I will have to catch a taxi to the lunch place from the feria and then catch a bus home afterward, but it will be inexpensive to do that.

 

I need at least five meals on hand here for Wed afternoon and evening, Thursday morning and evening, and Friday morning for both of us. Lisa rarely eats breakfast but I need to have something on hand here in case I can talk her into it.

 

I have cereal and oatmeal, burritos, potatoes and eggs on hand.  Will need to pick up another whole chicken for the crockpot probably at the feria. Jon says the ones there are delicious!

 

Friday at the Feria

 

…we’ll get fruits, veggies, chicken, fish (tilapia and maybe trout and salmon) — if we can get enough ice to keep the fish cold until we get back on the bus that afternoon) — enough to get us through next week.  And there’s always the local Super, which has everything else we might need (plus fish if we don’t think we can get fish home from the feria on the bus after a two hour lunch before the ice melts; if we get it the very  last thing before we leave there, we can probably make it work. The feria provides some ice with the fish they sell…).

 

That’s it for this time. Now I have to work on TODAY’s blog post… coming very soon!